User:Dagadt/Coaching

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Tutorials Introduction to Wikipedia Introduction to editing Scartol, on template use and design Dweller, on Featured Article Candidates Yuser, on fighting linkspam Learning the ropes Elaragirl, about deletion and deletionism The Rambling Man, on vandalism Grutness's guide to stubbing External interfaces - let's compare Internal interfaces - what do you use? Getting an article to featured article status Basic dispute resolution Adding citations Reporting and dealing with vandals Fundamentals of editing

Thank you for choosing me as your coach. I hope I can help you reach your goals on Wikipedia.

What are your goals?

The Transhumanist 11:13, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

My goals are learning everything about the programs you use as an admin. Besides, that´s clear, I want to help stopping vandalism. If you can show me this things and if you can give me the knowledge I need for becoming an good admin, I´d be very happy!

Contents 1 Edit summaries 2 First assignment 3 Answering messages 4 Tools 5 Vandalism 6 Edit summaries 7 Collaboration 8 FYI

[edit] Edit summaries

The first thing I noticed is that you don't always fill in your edit summaries. You should fill those in - it helps others understand what you have done when they look at the edit histories for articles and when they look at your contribution history.

There's a setting in "my contributions" you can use to force you to remember.

The Transhumanist 11:13, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

No problem, I promise you that in the future I´ll fill all my edits!

[edit] First assignment

Familiarize yourself with every page listed on WP:DIR - click on each one and read it.

The Transhumanist 11:13, 12 January 2008 (UTC)

Wow! That are lots of pages. But I´m sure that tomorrow I know them. Today, I´ve lots of things to do, so only tomorrow I can learn something.

You don't have to do it all in one day. The Transhumanist 22:44, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Answering messages

You mixed your responses with my posts above. It was hard to tell at first glance what I posted above from your answers. I've reformatted the discussion, moving your answers to after each of my posts to more easily tell them apart.

Please see Wikipedia:Indentation and Wikipedia:Signatures.

The Transhumanist 22:42, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

WP:AIV WP:WARN WP:RCU WP:RCP WP:RPP WP:RFA WP:AFD WP:XFD WP:DRV CAT:SPEEDY WP:CSD WP:RM WP:FA WP:RFC WP:RAA WP:ER WP:TM WP:LOP WP:PNT WP:BACK CAT:HELP WP:VP WP:HAHA WP:BARN WP:RD

[edit] Tools

A good place to start is my tool page.

There's a link to it on my user page.

The Transhumanist 22:24, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Vandalism

The lesson The Rambling Man, on vandalism is a very good place to start.

See also Vandalism.

The Transhumanist 22:24, 15 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Edit summaries

Please fill in your edit summaries.

If you have a hard time remembering, there's a setting that will remind you in "my preferences."

The Transhumanist 23:27, 27 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Collaboration

I'm pushing a collaboration to complete the list of basic space exploration topics.

Should be fun. Drop on by.  ;)

Also, see my post to User talk:Quiddity#Basic topic lists if you want to delve in deeper.

The Transhumanist 09:14, 6 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] FYI

I resign as your coach. I've moved this page to your userspace for safekeeping.

The Transhumanist 09:14, 6 February 2008 (UTC)